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Clive Wilkins Fine Artist ~Biographical Details
Clive lives and works in the heart of England, UK. He works full time as a fine artist/illustrator. Clive was represented at The Piccadilly Gallery, Cork Street, London from 1987-8, and at The Portal Gallery, Bond Street, London from 1992-4. He was a member of the Leicester Society of Artists until 2002. He was placed second in the 1988 Hunting Group Awards, at The Mall Galleries, and has appeared in the NPG Portrait Awards on five occasions. His work has appeared in print, including 'Country Life', ' NPG Portrait Awards Guide', ' Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Illustrated Guide 1986', and '1994', 'The Best of British Illustration Annual', 'The Creatures in the Night'. Dingley Press 2008, as well as numerous magazines and exhibition guides. Clive has produced portraits of Sir Peter Blake and Sir Howard Hodgkin amongst others. He was presented to HRH Princess Royal during an official visit to the University of London in 1994. He completed thirty-one paintings for publication in 2005/6. The working title for this sequence is 'The Creatures in the Night'. The paintings can be previewed on this website from time to time, & on the dedicated restricted access CITN websites. Details of site addresses & passwords are available on request. The book, 'The Creatures in the Night', featuring all the paintings with an accompanying text were published to great acclaim in May 2008, by The Dingley Press. The original paintings produced for the CITN project are available to collectors who are very much invited to make contact. He is no longer represented by Conville & Walsh. [Literary Agents], London. He is represented by Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London.
All images on this website are © Clive Wilkins ~Selected Criticism 'Demands attention' Terence Mullaly. The Daily Telegraph. 'I found what for me epitomises the real purpose of Art, he seizes life at its most exciting visual impression.' G.S. Whittet. Painting Monthly. 'Technically ingenious paintings, a Pre-Raphaelite revival lies behind Clive Wilkins.' Brian Sewell. The London Standard. It is the absence of cliche that makes for such distinguished portraiture.' Colin Amery. The Financial Times 'His paintings are acclaimed by critics and public alike.' Anne Bratby. Northants Evening Telegraph. 'Astonishing small Portrait.' Mark Le Fanu. The Daily Telegraph. ‘His
work deserves to succeed- indeed I am sure that it will’, Prince Charles. 'Look at the exquisite workmanship in Clive Wilkins' painting.' John Hewitt. Bradford Argus. 'Clever detail and intricately exact painting.' Elizabeth Hilliard. Arts Review. ‘I like the paintings very much, as I always have’.
Peter Blake.
Biographical details & CV
~Exhibited I.C.A. Galleries, London. [1980] Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London. [1984] Midland Group, Nottingham. [1984] Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery [1985] Stoke City Museum and Art Gallery [1985] Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. [1985] Derby City Museum. [1985] National Portrait Gallery, London. [1985] Cartwright Hall, Bradford. [1985/6] Leicester City Museum & Art Gallery. [1986] Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. [1986] National Portrait Gallery, London. [1986] The Yarrow Gallery, Oundle, Northants. [1986] The Alfred East Art Gallery, Kettering, Northants. [1986] The Portal Gallery, Bond Street, London. [1986/7] Leicester City Museum & Art Gallery. [1987] The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London. [1987] National Portrait Gallery, London. [1987] The Piccadilly Gallery, Cork Street, London. [1987] Leicester City Museum & Art Gallery. [1988] The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London. [1988] Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth. [1988] Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. [1988] The Piccadilly Gallery, Cork Street, London. [1988] The Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham, Rutland [1988] The Loseby Gallery, Leicester. [1988] Leicester City Museum & Art Gallery [1989] Adam and Co. Banking. Charlotte Street. Edinburgh. [1989] Spink and Son, King Street, London. [1989] Leicester City Museum & Art Gallery. [1990] The Portal Gallery, Bond Street. London. [1992] Leicester City Museum & Art Gallery. [1992] Portal, Bremen, West Germany. [1992] The Portal Gallery, Bond Street, London. [1993] Leicester City Museum & Art Gallery. [1993] University of London, Royal Holloway College. [1994] National Portrait Gallery, London. [1994] Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London. [1994] National Portrait Gallery, London. [1995] Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland. [1995] Fine Art of Oakham, Rutland. [1997] The Leonardo Sunley Gallery, Uppingham, Rutland. [1998] Leicester City Museum & Art Gallery. [2000] Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, LONDON. [2005/6/7] ~ Biographical details & CV Please contact the artist for more details or to make comment. |
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